Mom of many heading into empty nest syndrome- come enjoy the ride!

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Little Town in the middle of Nowhere, Texas, United States
I'm a mom of 4 boys: Jay who's 30, Jory who is 27, Tim is 25, and B is 23. I also have a daughter, Kristi who is 33. I have a grandson, Little Bit/Elmer, that was born in July 2009. I have a new grandson who was born in September of 2017. We moved from North TX to East TX on the land of our dreams in '09 and I love the peace and quiet. It's so nice to have trees again after 11 years of flat and hot. I enjoy hanging out with my friends. I'm a huge baseball fan. Some might even call me obsessed with the game. ;) My favorite teams are the Rangers and the Red Sox. Being a Red Sox fan makes life interesting as all 4 of my boys are Yankee fans. (Basically, I only started cheering for the Red Sox to give the boys a hard time and then actually became a fan) I'm a happily single (well...divorced) mom.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2011

(Mostly) Wordless Weds...

     My mom will be here in 5 days.  4 days till I leave for Old Town to meet up with Ruth to pick up the baby.  And then I will have a house full for the next week.  Christmas shopping and visiting with mom.  And things are never dull or quiet with Elmer here.  Mom hasn't seen Elmer in almost 2 years and she, like everyone else, adores the baby.  So, I'm sure she'd rather see him than me.  :)
Elmer has a very expressive personality and I'm sure he'll entertain mom in a most amusing fashion.  




peek-a-boo

How do I get the sucker in my mouth with Uncle Hurricane's helmet on???

Making Uncle B crack up when he asked our waitress "girlfriend, can I has you number?"

what?  I'm innocent memaw!

Ready ..... Set....

Go!  Great form for a 2 year old

Having fun with bubbles...

Waiting on mama last meet up.  Always smiling

Monday, February 15, 2010

They just won't learn

Well, the cold weather is on its way out for us. Its supposed to be in the 50's all week and to 60 by Saturday. That's more like it! I don't do cold. Unfortunately, although the warmer stuff is supposed to be here tomorrow, today is still bloody cold. It was 26 this morning when I got up and is only supposed to get up to the mid 40's today.

So, I haven't heard from Hurricane since he called her yelping because I gave Ms Randi his phone number. I don't know if she ever met up with him about his birth certificate of not. Guess I should text her and ask. I had originally planned to go to Old town for his birthday. Now, these trips usually end up costing me a bundle. Food, stuff that we forget that we need while we're there, etc. (imagine that- I just got a text from Hurricane saying that he hasn't gotten his birth certificate yet). I have, at this time, decided that if he can't call me and act decent between now and his birthday (March 5), I am not driving back to Old Town for his birthday. I will send him and card and a present. Actually, after the texts that are coming in right now from him- I am not going back for sure. He still has not bothered to go pick up his birth certificate. I have asked Randi to put it in todays mail. I am a "piece of shit" because he doesn't have it yet. Randi has offered to meet up with him on a regular basis. He has blown her off. He wants either Vix to meet up with her or Randi to make a delivery service. Because he has chosen to not meet up with Randi and get his birth certificate, he claims he lost another job. This is - of course- all my fault. Everything is all my fault don't you know? Here's the problem with all this. I told him that Randi would put it in the mail since he didn't want to meet up with her. That was not good enough. He called me a "piece of shit", "crazy", and several other stupid and hurtful things. I told him that the birth certificate would be put in the mail and to leave me alone. He just wanted to keep it going and keep being hateful. So, I finally just started ignoring his texts. So then he started calling. Which, I didn't pick up. So he called Little Man's phone and drug Little Man into it- of course he didn't bother to tell Little Man WHY he was waking him up or what he had done. Because don't you know - poor Hurricane is Mr. Perfect and never does anything wrong. (in his eyes at least). The problem is, too many folks let him act like this and play the pity poor him game. He blows off like this at me, or Donna, or his brothers- it's always "you know he didn't mean it". Well, too damn bad with that excuse any more. If he doesn't mean it- he shouldn't be letting it come out his mouth on a regular basis.

Long and the short of it is: I am not going down there for his birthday. And I told him so. And he told me that he decided in January that he didn't care. But we are out and in the open. Actually, I am a smart ass so I told him: "This piece of shit won't be coming down for your birthday as I see no reason to spend that kind of money to go see someone who is so hateful and disrespectful with me". Will I skip his birthday? Absolutely not. I will send him a card and something to recognize it. I am the bigger person. Will I spend a ton of money on it? Nope. Not after the mouth today.

Anyhow, Super Bowl pix are up over: HERE Enjoy all!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Thanksgiving pix


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Wednesday, September 9, 2009

Mostly wordless Weds...

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

picture Tuesday

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008

land

 The well house.  The roof needs replaced and don't even ask me why it's been used as a garbage dump......  Also, someone ripped the fuse panel apart and it has to be fixed.  Ms. P asked for these repairs in the contract.
This is the 1st clearing with 2 driveways.  See the nasty semi truck they left us.  They are also removing it along with the pile of garbage you see behind it.  
Along one of the paths thru the land.  Yes, that is sir B partially in the picture.  Pretty path- pretty trees- garbage dump.  This particular dump is a whole pallet of bags of concrete that are now blocks of concrete and someone's old carpet.
This is in the 2nd clearing.  The remains of a house that has been burnt to the ground.  Of course they just left the mess.  
See the pretty scenery?  See another pile of garbage just left to ruin it?  This one looks like someone pulled their pick-up in here and just pushed everything out of the bed onto the ground. The black thing in the back is actually a tool box for the back of a pick-up.  
More pictures walking down the path.  Notice the garbage randomly lying around in the back ground.  Whomever owned this before had a decided lack of respect for their property and the environment.  

Going forward, P and S will be known as Vix and Cal.  Vix and I have been best friends and "sisters" since I was in high school.  She and Cal, who I've also known since I was in high school, are the god-parents of my brats.  We plan to embark on this adventure together.  Their financing.  B and I to take care of a lot of things that they are unable to do.  Cal has MS.  He has been wheelchair confined since before their marriage 21 years ago.  So, vix has limited time to take care of some of what will need done.  All of this is still pending contract negotiations at this point.  

So, I woke up yesterday with an earache (at 4  - FOUR a.m.).  We took vix's car to the property on Sunday and she has a convertible.  Of course we went with the top down.  Dumb me!  With my history of ear infections - that was really stupid of me.  So, my prescription wasn't ready at the time I had to take B to physical therapy.  Of course traffic was so bad that I couldn't make it back before the pharmacy closed.  So, I called Ice Cube and asked him to please run by the pharmacy and pick up my prescriptions.  No problem to this point right?  He- being the good young man he is- says no problem mom.  Then Ms. R's dad calls.  He mandates that they have to pick up younger brother from football practice.  This, of course, puts a kink in the kids plans and my prescriptions end up at Ms. R's house.  Till.  MIDNIGHT.  At about 11- the mean side of mom came out and I about turned into the girl from the exorcist when I called IC wanting to know when he might bring that antibiotic home.  As I had then been up for 19 hours at that point- IN PAIN.  He left to come home shortly after that but by then I couldn't get to sleep and it was after 1 before I finally got my eyes closed.  Needless to say- you would probably be glad to NOT know me at this point of this morning.   I wish I was the type of person who could go back to sleep after waking up in the morning.  But, I think I'm going to try to imitate a vegetable today and just be a bum.  ;)

One more thing before I close out the marathon post.  I was asked yesterday about child support or my lack thereof.  I actually talked to them yesterday afternoon and the private company would like to just "close the case".  They feel there's no way for them to collect as he's "filed for social security" and neither of his parents are "willing to pay his support for him".  Additionally, he has "no property or belongings in his name" so they see "no way to collect any money from him" because if he IS working- he's "working under the table" - like no shit- we knew THAT!    So, at this point, the only way my kids will EVER see a dime from him is if he should die before they turn 18.  Which means it's too late for some of them.  Do NOT take that statement as a wish that he would die- it's NOT.  It's a statement that - he will never pay support and as he's going to prison in Feb (I would say there's a better than 90% shot of that at this point)- then I'm sure that the kids will NEVER see a dime from their sperm donor.  Some men (and women) don't deserve to be called a "parent" and he turned into one of them.  

Have a good day all






Monday, July 14, 2008

Monday Updates

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